From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:04:19 -0700 Subject: [-next PATCH] security: use octal not symbolic permissions In-Reply-To: References: <1e91f8e10ce76d3208239b6b5899aab76d1543ff.1528743633.git.joe@perches.com> <3d890108a942b6a3fb9a5326501174af270707dc.camel@perches.com> Message-ID: <00961ef3fb41930a3304da935f1f73ebe386e83c.camel@perches.com> To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-security-module.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 11:49 -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 8:29 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-06-12 at 17:12 -0400, Paul Moore wrote: > > > Joe, in general I really appreciate the fixes you send, but these > > > patches that cross a lot of subsystem boundaries (this isn't the first > > > one that does this) causes unnecessary conflicts in -next and during > > > the merge window. Could you split your patches up from now on please? > > > > Sorry. No. Merge conflicts are inherent in this system. > > Yes, merge conflicts are inherent in this system when one makes a > single change which impacts multiple subsystems, e.g. changing a core > kernel function which is called by multiple subsystems. However, that > isn't what this patch does, it makes a number of self-contained > changes across multiple subsystems; there are no cross-subsystem > dependencies in this patch. You are increasing the likelihood of > conflicts for no good reason; that is why I'm asking you to split this > patch and others like it. No. History shows with high certainty that splitting patches like this across multiple subsystems of a primary subsystem means that the entire patchset is not completely applied. It's _much_ simpler and provides a generic mechanism to get the entire patch applied to send a single patch to the top level subsystem maintainer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html